Overnight Hit: Vicious Stepmother and Genius Son
Chapter 147

Chapter 147: 147

As the saying goes, with fame comes trouble; the various negative trending topics about Ye Zhenzhen have been clarified, but it’s impossible to avoid the backlash from other factors, such as haters.

Director Fei has thought deeply about these issues and what he aims to do is to clear up these matters for Ye Zhenzhen as much as possible.

The number of followers and comments on Ye Zhenzhen’s Weibo continued to increase, while Han Jiangxue originally hoped to gain more exposure and fans through this reality show seems to have had little effect.

All the spotlight went to Ye Zhenzhen instead.

After the edited reality show finished airing, Xiao Yi’s fans and those who watched the live broadcast discovered a new issue.

In the aired show, the part where Zhan Nan asked for an autograph didn’t make the cut, meaning, every topic related to Xiao Yi was edited out by the production team.

This move by the production team directly sparked dissatisfaction among Xiao Yi’s fans, who flocked to the official Weibo of "Mom’s Companion" to express their grievances;

[What’s going on with the production team? They leveraged our brother’s popularity during the live broadcast, and now that the variety show has started airing, they’ve cut everything?]

[I really don’t understand, does the production team think they are so famous now that they can look down on our Best Actor Xiao?]

[Does everyone feel there might be a possibility that the most popular guest right now actually has some sort of relationship with our brother?]

Seeing Xiao Yi fans complaining under the official Weibo, the variety show fans and Ye Zhenzhen’s true fans couldn’t stand it and directly replied to these comments;

[During the live broadcast, Xiao Yi was mentioned, and you fans chased after Ye Zhenzhen with insults, saying that the production team was riding on your brother’s coattails. Now that they have edited out all parts related to Xiao Yi, you all jump out again.]

[Exactly, why are you people everywhere?]

[You go around everywhere trying to draw attention. Does Best Actor Xiao know about this?]

As to whether Xiao Yi knows about it, frankly, he did already know.

The movie he was currently shooting would wrap up tomorrow with the final scene during the day, and the entire crew would finish filming; tonight, they wrapped up early, and he had just finished dinner in his hotel room.

While eating, he was watching "Mom’s Companion" with Feige.

During the live broadcast, he only caught bits and pieces, but now watching the complete video of the program, his lips couldn’t help but curl up when Ye Zhenzhen and Xiao Chen appeared.

Feige noticed this beside him and felt something was off.

However, after finishing the show, Xiao Yi idly scrolled through Weibo and saw the comments under the official Weibo of "Mom’s Companion." He looked up at Feige with his narrow, peach-shaped eyes squinting, "Did you arrange this?"

Feige had just taken a can of drink out of the fridge. He closed the fridge door and turned to look at Xiao Yi, asking in confusion, "What? What did I arrange?"

Xiao Yi raised an eyebrow, his tongue touching his lower jaw, and handed his phone to Feige, "Take a look for yourself."

After reading the comments from the fans on the phone, Feige couldn’t help but laugh, "Hahaha, are you just not content, or did you mistakenly think I hadn’t told you in advance and made a move behind your back?"

Feige thought the latter was less likely; the kid was probably just not satisfied.

While watching the show just now, he wondered why the whole uproar on Weibo, about a kid asking Ye Zhenzhen for an autograph from Best Actor Xiao, never appeared in the show, and now he realized it had been edited out.

He couldn’t even stop Xiao Yi from commenting on Weibo that he would give Ye Zhenzhen an autograph, and he accompanied Xiao Yi to the meeting; how could he then ask the production team to edit out the footage concerning Xiao Yi.

Xiao Yi narrowed his eyes and scrutinized Feige, asking again, "Are you sure it wasn’t you?"

"Hell no, I’m onto you; you made a scene during the person’s live broadcast and I didn’t deal with it. Do you think I’d deal with it now? Do I have the time for that?"

Xiao Yi put away his phone, his tone seemingly nonchalant, "I have nothing to do with her, you’d better stay out of these matters."

Feige: ...

This ’her’ he mentioned is rather interesting. From what Feige knows about Xiao Yi, if anyone says there’s really nothing between those two, they must be kidding.

And yet, he’s here pretending like it’s no big deal, explaining it to Feige.

If he’s not going to meddle, then he won’t. Feige sits on the sofa, flipping out the WeChat message Xia Zhi sent him this afternoon, "Look here, Xia Zhi wants to meet up with you this weekend; she’d like to discuss some details of the script with you."

Hearing about Xia Zhi, impatience flickered through Xiao Yi’s eyes, "I don’t want to meet. The filming wraps up tomorrow, and I need to go back and sleep for a couple of days."

"Hey, Xia Zhi is really smitten with you. You and Ye Zhenzhen have no chance, but if you’re really looking to date, why not give it a try with Talented Xia?"

As an artist, Xiao Yi has reached a stage where Feige no longer bothers to manage whether his dating life gets exposed or not.

The kid is already well into his twenties and hasn’t had a single romance. It’s tough enough that there’s a glimmer of hope, but it’s for a married woman.

He’d much rather see a possibility between Xiao Yi and Xia Zhi than any entanglement between Xiao Yi and Ye Zhenzhen in the future.

After all, a few years back, Xia Zhi had openly expressed her admiration for Xiao Yi.

"Are you annoying or what! Who told you to take on Xia Zhi’s script? Keep this up, and I won’t even take part in that movie."

Feige quickly waved his hands, trying to explain, "All right, all right, I won’t talk about it. I didn’t take the script just because she likes you. Didn’t you say that I should make all the decisions?"

Over the years, Xiao Yi’s career in the circle has benefited greatly from having Feige as his agent.

Feige understands Xiao Yi and also knows exactly what types of roles suit him.

About Xia Zhi’s script, she had consulted him even before she started writing it. Besides Xia Zhi’s admiration for Xiao Yi, she is indeed recognized as a talented writer in the industry. There was no problem with him, as an agent, accepting the script for Xiao Yi.

Xiao Yi stood up, his handsome face showing displeasure, "I’m going to sleep."

Feige: The kid is angry!

After Xiao Yi returned to his room, he flopped onto the bed, his mind growing increasingly irritated.

He thought that if it wasn’t Feige who had meddled with the program editing, then there was only one other person who would do such a thing, Song Jinze.

No one else but him.

...

Huanya Grand Hotel.

Shen Zhaonan, accompanied by his secretary, made his way to the banquet hall. Originally, he wanted to bring Cheng Shaoqing with him, but Cheng Shaoqing had to fly to Nancheng tonight, claiming there was a fresh deal there that he needed to wrap up.

He had also asked someone to give another invitation to Shen Zhaonan.

Throughout the evening, Shen Zhaonan’s eyes stayed glued to Cheng Zheng, but people kept coming and going, greeting Cheng Zheng.

It would have been fine if Shen Zhaonan knew them, but he didn’t recognize a single one.

It was not until Song Jinze took the stage to speak that everyone began to slowly shift their attention to the handsome and cool presence on stage...